It is easy to see where they were trying to go with this review. It is just a review of a game in their minds. Two big problems:
1. They are making qualifying statements about various graphics cards. Their statement that the X850 is head and shoulders above all other cards, setting the standard to which all other GPU's must strive, is biased. Period. Such qualifying statments about video cards should be left out of this review. Unnecessary and is directly responsible for the backlash they are getting from this review.
2. By having only ATI cards on their extreme PCI-E bench machine it gives two misleading impressions. One, ATI cards are the only brand of cards available to test at this high end. Two, PCI-E is the only option for high end cards.
By having structured their review so that #2, above, occured the reviewers have turned this review into a statement about video cards, not about the game.
I believe this is an unintentional move on their parts. Sadly, that is not an excuse. In fact it is more damning. They are not competent enough to avoid such pitfalls and that speaks very poorly about the two reviewers. As representatives of their company, that then speaks poorly of the company, the website and calls into question all reviews past, present and future.
Like the 'New York Times' a year or two ago when they found a writer for their newspaper was creating stories, this company needs to take aggressive action to review their methodology and the company needs to take steps to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
Too bad, it would have been interesting to read a good review with the idea they had for that one.
Joker